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Spencer Salas; Maryann Mraz; Susan Green; Brian Keith Williams – English Teaching Forum, 2024
This article uses the Stephen Crane story "The Open Boat" (freely available on the American English website) as an anchor text to demonstrate how teachers can apply Raphael's Question-Answer Relationship (QAR) technique to a text that students might be assigned to read. The article includes numerous examples and tips that teachers can…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Responses, Reading Comprehension, Teaching Methods
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Oo, Tun Zaw; Habók, Anita – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2020
The main objective of the paper is to develop a Reflective Teaching Model for Reading Comprehension (RTMRC) in English Language Teaching (ELT). In recent decades, the concept of 'reflection' has become widely used in relation to an effective teaching process in various contexts, such as reflective teaching, reflective practices, reflective…
Descriptors: Reflective Teaching, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Reading Comprehension
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Ashley M. Stack; Kausalai Wijekumar; Elsa Cárdenas-Hagan – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2024
Reading comprehension is the ultimate goal of learning to read, as the understanding of text is at the root of the purpose for reading, whether reading for pleasure or reading to learn. At-home reading practices can vary widely family to family -- some families have the knowledge and resources to read effectively with their children, while others…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Literacy Education, Program Descriptions, Spanish
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Alhumsi, Mohammad Husam A. – MEXTESOL Journal, 2021
Beginning in early 2020, the world began experiencing the first effects of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. As with other new emerging infectious diseases, it had been noted that a medical student's ability to read about and learn the correct reactions to this kind of event is urgent (Al-Mohrej & Agha, 2017). Therefore, medical school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Medical Students
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Myskow, Gordon – English Teaching Forum, 2019
According to I.S. P. Nation (2009, 66), four conditions must be present for an activity to be categorized as fluency development: (1) learners' attention must be focused on the meaning of the text they are reading rather than its grammatical or structural features; (2) here should be no new vocabulary and few irregular language features in the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Reading Fluency, Teaching Methods
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Wu, Manfred Man-fat – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2019
Second language research has traditionally been characterized by the cognitive perspective which focuses on how the individual processes language. There has been an emerging trend over the past few decades on taking into consideration the social influences on second language learning based on diverse theoretical frameworks. Research on second…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Educational Philosophy, Reading Comprehension, Language Processing
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Benati, Alessandro – Language Teaching, 2019
This paper firstly presents and examines the pedagogical intervention called Processing Instruction (PI). Secondly, it reviews and discusses the main findings of the empirical research conducted to measure the relative effects of PI. Current research trends within the PI research framework will be outlined. Experimental research investigating the…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Guidelines, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Mullins, L. Aaron – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2019
Self-efficacy is one's belief in one's capacity to organize and execute a course of action and serves as a motivating factor, since people tend to seek opportunities in areas where they feel efficacious and avoid areas where they believe they might fail (Bandura, 1997). Furthermore, as language learners' feelings of efficacy increase, so does the…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Reading Comprehension
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Fichtner, Friederike; Barcroft, Joe – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2021
Second language (L2) learners comprehend more when they are prepared for novel vocabulary that they encounter in a text. Input-based incremental (IBI) vocabulary instruction (Barcroft, 2012) provides L2 instructors and learners with a means of achieving this goal by (a) presenting optimal input to learners at the right time during a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Self Concept, German
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Fu, Chunxia – English Language Teaching, 2020
Cohesion Theory of Halliday and Hasan has been widely applied in different parts of language teaching. As many cohesive devices are used in language, it's very necessary for language learners to understand and identify those devices. Now in China, a large number of college students have to take part in the CET-4 test every year. Thus, it is of…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Connected Discourse, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Smith, E. Halle; Hollander, John; Graesser, Art C.; Sabatini, John; Hu, Xiangen – English Teaching, 2021
Facing the demands of the pandemic and distance learning, English learners require educational technologies that are accessible, engaging, and effective. Meeting these demands requires educational technology developers to consider learners' sociocultural contexts. Learning theories can be applied to meet individuals' needs to optimize chances for…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Salas, Spencer; Williams, Brian Keith; Mraz, Maryann; Adrane, Soufiane – English Teaching Forum, 2021
For many secondary-level teachers working with adolescent language learners, one of the motivations for choosing English teaching as a profession is a shared love of reading short stories. At its best, entering a narrative is a sensory experience: engaged readers see, hear, and feel the words of a story and imagine themselves within its pages.…
Descriptors: Visualization, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Karami, Amirreza – Cogent Education, 2021
This paper proposes a new theoretical framework for reading instruction in second/foreign language classrooms. The theoretical framework introduced in this paper is called the Schematic Information-Processing (SIP) model of reading comprehension and is a combination of video-based instruction and various reading comprehension theories, models, and…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Reading Comprehension
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Haug, Laura – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2021
Integrated assessment evaluates language proficiency through tasks that require the test-taker to produce a written or spoken output based on listening or reading comprehension (reading or listening-into-writing or speaking). Since integrated assessment aims at reflecting the communicative and cognitive requirements of academic life and other…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Wiley, Patricia A. – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2018
A short review of first- and second-year German instructional material in the U.S. shows that, by design, cultural competence is either frequently conveyed in isolation from other language skills, or culture topics are approached merely in a utilitarian way to test comprehension or practice grammar. The contribution at hand presents a multi-modal,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, German, Instructional Materials
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